This is a 3D Lightning McQueen cake I made for a relative who was turning two. I used the Wilton 3D cruiser cake pan. Cut a small piece of cake from separate batter and carve a spoiler for the rear. Use skewers or toothpicks to attach to car. Pipe all smaller decals on before piping … Read more
First of all, thanks to the other kids cake enthusiasts who submitted their masterpieces – they totally inspired me! I used one 9 x 13″ Chocolate Cake (Cake Mix) cut the long way, filled with buttercream frosting (homemade) and layered. The double-layered cake piece was frosted with blue tinted buttercream frosting. I also used one … Read more
I made this Cars birthday cake for my cousins 2nd Birthday. He’s really into Cars. Luckily, McDonald’s toy for their happy meals is from the Disney movie “Cars”. I used the cars from there and also a small poster from the movie to use as my cake board backdrop. I made the cake look like … Read more
I made this Diego cake for my son’s 6th birthday. It took about 9 hours to decorate this cake. There were at least 12 colors that had to be made. This cake was probably the hardest I have made. I do think that of all the cakes I have decorated, this was the best I … Read more
I made this Homemade Go Diego Go Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 4th birthday. I got the Diego pan and icing colors from AC Moore. I started with the base sheet cake and covered it in ‘Sky Blue’ icing. I then added a small section over the bottom of the cake a dark brown, I … Read more
My auntie wanted me to make her daughter a birthday cake and I had made my daughter a Dora cake so my auntie liked the cake I made for my own daughter and wanted me to make the Dora cake for her daughters birthday. I made the Dora cake from 2x 24 cm cake pan … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for my niece Emily’s 3rd birthday, and she wouldn’t let anyone cut her Dora cake. I made 4 butter cake mixes in a 14inx10in tin. I got a pic of Dora and used this for the template and cut the shape out. Covered it with a crumb coat … Read more
I made this Dora Birthday Cake for my goddaughter’s birthday. I used the Dora shape cake pan. I used a knife and then cut the top part of legs off and outlined a tail in its place (the cut is at a downward angle). The Dora shape cake was placed on top of a full … Read more
This Dora Cake Idea is a fourth birthday cake – only the top two layers are cake, the bottom is a Styrofoam form – we simply didn’t need that much cake! The cakes are covered in fondant with the details and figures made from fondant a couple of weeks in advance (I used cocktail sticks … Read more
My two year old loves Dora so that seemed like a great idea for a party. I searched this site for just the perfect cake and found several I loved. I decided to do a Dora scene birthday cake. I took ideas from several cakes I saw here and created this. The base is a … Read more
For anyone who’s ever made any cake, this Dora’s World Cake is simple and rewarding. This ‘Dora Cake’ we made for our daughter features a tootsie roll bridge, gel icing stream, nerds for wildflowers, gumdrop bushes and everyone’s favorite, fudge mountain! Complete with trickling chocolate syrup and topped with powdered sugar. First use any cake … Read more
My 4 year old daughter really wanted a fairytale adventure Dora cake, but I’m no artist, and the iced sheet cakes seemed so difficult. I had this type of Dora Cake in mind, (copied of course from the Barbie version) but didn’t know how I was going to be able to pull it off. She … Read more